My Spotify Dream

The future is always on my mind. I've been undecided of what I want to do in the future for a long time now. I worry how my Autism will be a conflict with work. Some things everyone else can do aren't so easy for me. Autism has a lot of positives that outweigh the negatives for me though. I think it gives me an advantage to think differently. I have always wanted to be a comedian because people think I'm funny and it's something I'm good at. I like to do many things though. I recently watched the movie "Nightcrawler", and I really liked the "Louis Bloom" character. Nightcrawler has a theme of work dedication and it inspired me to really think about what I want to do. I spent a lot of time thinking, and I thought to myself, what do I have the strongest passion for? What is something I do every single day? What puts the biggest smile on my face? What motivates me? What gives me that tingling feeling flowing through my blood stream?

It's MUSIC! Music is something that I have a strong passion for. It's why I volunteer for Spotify. I spend most of my time jammin' out to music and finding new artists to listen to. I spend an average of 20 hours a day listening to music. That's 20 hours total including music focused time as well as music I listen to in the background. I never get bored of music. I add an average of 2-3 new songs to my library every day. Since the beginning of 2014, I have already discovered 500 new songs and it will continue to grow. I struggle trying to pick a song to listen to because I want to listen to so many songs at once. I will get frustrated sometimes looking through my list of songs. When I listen to music I have the biggest smile in the world on my face. Music is how I am able to sleep. Music is what gets me up in the morning. I even have a speaker in my bathroom so I can blast music and dance along to it in the shower to motivate me for the day. I have a really nice music setup so whether I'm in my room, the living room, in the shower, or on the go, I can just continue on and listen to music with great equipment. When I get a chance to see one of my favorite artists perform in concert, I get so excited. Seeing an artist live in concert takes the experience to a whole new level. When I listen to music, I can feel my blood. I can feel my heart beat.

Spotify is the future of music and I want to be a part of it. You don't even have to wait for the future to use Spotify, because Spotify is here NOW. Sure, you've probably heard about all the artist controversy with Spotify, but the haters will quickly fade into the background. The haters don't understand the importance of Spotify. In the future, Spotify will probably be the first thing everyone thinks of when it comes to music. My new dream is to work at Spotify. I'm not sure if it will ever happen, but I'm so tired of being uncertain about the future. Now I don't have to worry about what I want to do. Dreams come true if you work hard enough. I know this because I've had dreams come true before. All it takes is hard work and dedication. Even if I never end up working at Spotify, at least I can say I tried. I have always liked music, but I didn't appreciate it that much and really understand it's value until I started using Spotify in 2011. Spotify took my experience of listening to music to the next level. I have Spotify to thank for getting me interested in music. The whole Spotify experience inspired me to start helping other people enjoy and use Spotify. Every single day since fall 2012, I've been helping people enjoy their music on Spotify by volunteering my time in the Spotify Community. On some days, I will jeopardize my sleep in order to help out at outrageous hours of the day. The passion just takes over. The Spotify Community shows that I've spent 738970 minutes online which is 12316 hours or 513 days. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but I've already put in so much effort that I can't stop now. Employees at Spotify know who I am. They know I exist. I will not go away. I've met some of them and I get to talk to them every single day and it's so cool. I believe in Spotify's vision for music and I believe I fit in with their culture. If I don't get to work at Spotify someday, I will at least try to get a job somewhere in the music industry. I just hope everything works out. I might have to move and travel for a job in the music industry, but I'm not going to worry about that right now. I'll just let music lead the way.

If you don't have the biggest smile in the world on your face when you jam out to music, then you are doing it wrong.

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Lovely post, Matt - I'm not really surewhat to say! It amazing that somebody with a disability like autism can help countless amounts of people on here a day. Keep on rockin'!

~Joe

JOEBOT, lovingly handmade by MattSuda - I'm not the only sexy rock star, there are plenty of others that are happy to help you out. Just look for the star by their name.-I AM NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF SPOTIFY AB. I am just a thirteen year old child trying to help out. I am not paid to help or say any views of Spotify AB or any of it's affiliates, so the least that you could do is share some kudos, or, if I helped you out, mark my post as a solution. It makes me all fuzzy inside

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It's the same for me. I was applying for a job as a web developer at Spotify two years ago, spring 2012. I was

I've dedicated so much time with developing with Spotify the latest four years. And at the same time Spotify Apps were released, I worked on my own project "Spotify Apps". That were just quite intriguing to see Spotify release something I just worked on myself.

My big obsession with Spotify is rooted on the fact that Spotify prior to CEF created their own kind of client side web rendering system "Spider", where the Spotify client acts as a web server. I've tried to create a clone of that engine multiple times in multiple languages. I were obsessed with it since I found some XML files in the spotify directories that contains preprocessing directives and ASP.NET like errors when views are rendered wrong. It was intriguing since Spotify worked so extremly fast five years ago, on a laptop that were hell slow (Acer Aspire).

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@MattSuda Holy F`ck (sorry) but this is the best application or kind of history i've ever read. Keep going and darn... 738k minutes online are just amazing!!! Keep your head up and concentrate on this dream ;)

p.s. in my opinion autism is a really great way to see the world with different eyes. I think that this is a really amazing positive aspect. Im a Borderliner which was diagnosted 3 years ago ;)

Kind regards,

Max aka. Amarro

If i helped you don't forget to leave a "Kudo" or "Accept as Solution".

I know it's a dream of some people, because they think music is their life and stuff, but working at a technology company requires either business / economy / marketing or tech-related studies. I always wanted to work for Lastfm, Soundcloud, Hypemachine or now Spotify too, but I have to say that I want to study computer science so I'd be a developer somewhere and to work for a music company is even better. Just wanted to mention to everyone who reads this: you need some skills and not only a heart for music :) This is a general comment and not related to your situation Matt.

But I think your text is great and inspiring and I wish you all the best! ♡